ROHM of Kyoto, Japan is to provide full-SiC (silicon carbide) power modules to the VENTURI Formula E team during season 4 (2017–2018) of FIA Formula E (the world’s first formula racing championship for all-electric vehicles), ...
Tags: Power Modules, silicon carbide
Market insiders noted that TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.), the world's largest semiconductor foundry headquartered in Taiwan, will see a strong revenue performance as the firm won massive orders from multinational ...
Tags: TSMC, semiconductor
Analog Devices Inc (ADI) of Norwood, MA, USA has launched small-form-factor isolated gate drivers designed for the higher switching speeds and system size constraints required by power switch technologies such as silicon carbide (SiC) and ...
Tags: Analog Devices, GaN Power
Japan’s ROHM Semiconductor has developed 1200V 400A/600A-rated full-silicon carbide (SiC) power modules [BSM400D12P3G002/BSM600D12P3G001] - available in June (for samples and OEM quantities) - optimized for inverters and converters in ...
Tags: power modules, Semiconductor
Researchers at North Carolina State University (NCSU) have created a high-voltage and high-frequency silicon carbide (SiC) power switch that could cost much less than similarly rated SiC power switches, it is reckoned. The findings could ...
AgileSwitch LLC of Philadelphia, PA, USA - which produces plug-and-play, programmable silicon IGBT and silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFET gate drive assemblies to address demands for higher performance and functionality at higher voltages and ...
Tags: SiC MOSFET, AgileSwitch LLC
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and General Electric Global Research Center in the USA "experimentally demonstrate, for the first time, bi-directional 4H-silicon carbide planar gate, insulated-gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) fabricated on ...
Tags: Bipolar Transistor
In booth 9-242 at PCIM (Power Conversion Intelligent Motion) Europe 2016 in Nuremburg, Germany (10–12 May), Wolfspeed of Research Triangle Park, NC, USA — a Cree Company that makes silicon carbide (SiC) power products including ...
Tags: Power Module, Gate Driver
In hall 9, booth 316 at PCIM (Power Conversion Intelligent Motion) Europe 2016 in Nuremberg, Germany (10-12 May), Japan's Rohm Semiconductor is showcasing its latest power products for high-speed switching and high-power performance, while ...
Market sectors encompassing telecommunications, consumer electronics, innovative energy applications in transportation, electricity generation and other market sectors are increasingly valuing power semiconductor devices as usage of these ...
Tags: AC driver, railway applications, high power
Power semiconductor device manufacturer Rohm Co Ltd of Kyoto, Japan has developed a 1200V/300A full-SiC (silicon carbide) power module - integrating a SiC-SBD (Schottky barrier diode) and SiC-MOSFET (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect ...
Firecomms Ltd of Cork, Ireland and Tongxiang, China (which manufactures fiber-optic solutions and optical transceivers for communications networks) has launched a range of 5Mb RedLink fiber optic receivers with an extended temperature ...
Tags: Firecomms, Optical transceivers, IGBT driver
Infineon Technologies AG of Munich, Germany says that is the market leader in power semiconductors for the twelfth consecutive time. Following the firm's acquisition of International Rectifier at the beginning of 2015, Infineon has a market ...
Tags: power semiconductors, Electronics
Researchers in Japan have been developing ways to increase minority carrier lifetimes in lightly doped silicon carbide (SiC) with a view to insulated-gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) [Tetsuya Miyazawa et al, J. Appl. Phys., vol118, p085702, ...
According to the report 'GaN and SiC for power electronics applications' from Yole Développement, in 2014 the silicon carbide (SiC) chip business was worth more than $133m, with power factor correction (PFC) and photovoltaics (PV) ...
Tags: SiC Market, power electronics